SOLUTION: if it takes 100 chicken 16 days to eat a sock of corn. how much days will it take 80 chicken to eat a sock of corn.

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Question 862701: if it takes 100 chicken 16 days to eat a sock of corn. how much days will it take 80 chicken to eat a sock of corn.
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It will take 12.8 days
Answer by MathTherapy(10551)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

if it takes 100 chicken 16 days to eat a sock of corn. how much days will it take 80 chicken to eat a sock of corn.


Number of chickens and time to eat the corn vary INDIRECTLY or INVERSELY

Therefore, 80 chickens will take  days to eat the corn

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